Drawing syntax trees

1. Go to https://groverburger.github.io/sapling/

2. Click on "root" to select the root node.

3. Delete the text "root" and replace it with the top of your tree

4. Right click on the node, then select "Add Subnode" → "Double". This will create two nodes below your topmost node.

5. Click on a node to select it. Type in the box to add text. Repeat for all nodes.

6. To add child nodes, click on the parent node, then "Add Subnode" and select "Single" or "Double" as required.

7. Click on the new node(s) to enter a name.

8. To edit other nodes, click on the node to select it. You can add text at this stage.

9. With the node selected, click "Add Subnode" and select "Single" or "Double" as required.

10. You can continue adding child nodes in this manner.

11. Click on the camera icon to save your tree as an image.

12. To create a new tree, click the icon that looks like a sheet of paper.

Note that this will remove the tree you've just made, so be sure to save it as an image first!

1. Create a new PowerPoint document and create a new slide. Delete all of the pre-existing textboxes on the slide.

2. For each node, insert a new textbox (Insert → Text Box)

3. Align the textboxes by dragging. PowerPoint provides handy guides (the dashed lines) to help line things up.

4. To draw lines between the nodes, insert a line (Insert → Shapes → Line).

Notice that when you go to draw the line, a small dot will appear on each side of each text box. If you start your line at the dot in one text box, and end it at another text box, it will link the two boxes.

5. Repeat this process for each line in the tree

6. Now you'll copy the tree into Word. Select the entire area around your tree, then copy the selected area by going to Edit → Copy.

7. Open your Word document. Insert the copied image by using Edit → Paste Special (NOT Edit → Paste). Select "PDF" in the popup box.

8. Success!